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  • initialism Best Linear Unbiased Prediction.

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  • Robinson GK (1991) That BLUP is a good thing: the estimation of random effects.

    PLoS Medicine: New Articles Julie Knoll Rajaratnam et al. 2010

  • Robinson GK (1991) That BLUP is a good thing: the estimation of random effects.

    PLoS Medicine: New Articles Julie Knoll Rajaratnam et al. 2010

  • Accuracies of MA-BLUP breeding values for young bull candidates were strongly affected by the inclusion of cow information, but only marginally influenced by pedigree depth and proportions of genotyped animals.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2009

  • These estimated phenotypes were then used in marker assisted BLUP (MA-BLUP) evaluations where only the genotyped animals and their close relatives were included.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2009

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